{"id":11692,"date":"2010-12-04T14:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/04\/qatar-accused-over-world-cup-bid\/"},"modified":"2010-12-04T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:21:40","slug":"qatar-accused-over-world-cup-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/04\/qatar-accused-over-world-cup-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar accused over World Cup bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"294\" width=\"363\" \/>PTV &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Football Federation  Australia board member Jack Reilly has accused the Qatar delegation of  giving money to buy hosting the 2022 World Cup.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Qatar delegation has been pushing money around for a long period of time,&#8221; he told ABC TV from Zurich on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>He made the allegation after FIFA selected Russia as the host nation for the 2018 and Qatar for the 2022 World Cup games. <\/p>\n<p>Reilly noted that it is hard to compete with the Qatar bid and the  result is a victory for the politicians in FIFA, adding that he is  totally heartbroken. <\/p>\n<p>Australia contributed 44 million dollars towards its bid and Prime  Minister Julia Gillard said the entire nation was &#8220;disappointed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Qatar was named the host from a group of countries which included Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 2018 and 2022 we go to new lands, because the World Cup has  never been in Eastern Europe or the Middle East,&#8221; said FIFA president  Joseph Blatter. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar has resources and ambitions for the biggest sports event with  under 1.7 million inhabitants and almost complete lack of footballing  pedigree. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar plans to build nine stadiums at a cost of 3 billion dollars  and provide them with air conditioning that ensures players and fans a  temperature in the stadium of 27 degrees, while outside it can reach  over 40. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; ZURICH, Football Federation Australia board member Jack Reilly has accused the Qatar delegation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3762,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}